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Changes made operative and archives

This council publicly notified the Water Plan on 28 February 1998. Following the process of submissions, hearings, and appeals, ORC  made the plan operative on 1 January 2004. The table below lists changes to the plan since then.

Key Event Date Notified Date Decision Released Date Operative
Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan (please contact ECan for information on this plan) 19 February 2005 30 September 2005 3 July 2006
Plan Change 1A 17 August 2005 1 April 2006 1 August 2006
Plan Change 1B (Minimum Flows) 20 December 2008 31 October 2009 1 March 2010
Plan Change 1C (Water Allocation and Use) 20 December 2008 10 April 2010 1 March 2012
Plan Change 3A (Minimum Flow for Taieri River at Tiroiti) 26 June 2010 11 December 2010 1 May 2011
Plan Change 4A (Groundwater and North Otago Volcanic Aquifer) 18 September 2010 24 September 2011 1 March 2012
Amendment 1 (NPS Freshwater Management) 24 June 2011 24 June 2011 1 July 2011
Plan Change 2 (Regionally Significant Wetlands) 2 July 2011 12 May 2012 1 October 2013

Plan Change 6A (Water Quality)
Plan Change 6A Archive

 31 March 2012 20 April 2013 1 May 2014
Plan Change 4B (Groundwater allocation) 17 May 2014 13 December 2014 1 September 2015
Plan Change 4C (Groundwater management: Cromwell Terrace Aquifer) 16 August 2014 13 December 2014 1 September 2015
Plan Change 3B (Pomahaka Catchment minimum flow) 16 August 2014 14 February 2015 1 June 2015
Plan Change 3C (Waiwera Catchment minimum flow) 13 December 2014 8 August 2015 1 March 2016
Amendment 2 (NES Plantation Forestry) to the Regional Plan:Water 30 June 2018 30 June 2018 1 July 2018
Proposed Plan Change 5A (Lindis: Integrated water management) 8 August 2015 13 August 2016 -
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